Sublime

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul’s place for him.

Balaguer podía ser un traidor, pero era un intelectual, tenía sentido de la historia, quería pasar a la posteridad; tal vez eso lo animara a salvar de una muerte atroz al hombre «más odiado de la República Dominicana», como le había dicho en la última entrevista en Ciudad Trujillo, el día que lo obligó a salir de su tierra con el cuento del consula

The consorts of such lords, poetically exemplified by the figure of Wealþeow in Beowulf and by the Wife’s Lament of the Exeter Book, played critical roles in the management of the comitatus, as anthropologist Michael Enright has argued.24 A noble wife managed the elaborate drinking rituals through which the comites were bound into their lord’s serv

A large condottiere company was divided into a number of squadrons. The largest of these was the ‘casa’ or household of the leader of the company. In this would be placed not only his most experienced and faithful men-at-arms but also his chancellors, grooms, trumpeters, and various attendants. In the casa of a condottiere prince like Sigismondo Ma

“Your fighting men are much better off than those around them, heh? They see unpleasant alternative to being soldiers of the Baron, heh?” The Baron fell silent, eyes unfocused. The possibilities—had Rabban unwittingly given House Harkonnen its ultimate weapon? Presently he said: “How could you be sure of the loyalty of such recruits?” “I would take

Princess Irulan

it is worth thinking of a figure like Arthur in terms of the sort of lordship he might have enjoyed. In the Historia Brittonum he is explicitly not a king but a leader in war, fighting alongside kings or on their behalf. Conspicuously, while Gildas’s tyrants and the piratical warlords of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Irish Annalsp are territorial l